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l Specification of Letters Patent. r Pgmgllted June 29, 1915 Applicationled August 26, 1914. Serial No. 858,695.

To all whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that I, JOHN THOMAS MEYER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Minster, in the county of Auglaize and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Spoons, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawm s.

Idy invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in spoons,and especially to that type desirable in blessing baptismal water in theCatholic Church.

It has always been found difficult to pour the holy oils from a tinbottle into the water and at the same time read the necessary prayersfrom a book, and it not infrequently happens that either too much oil ornone at all is poured.

A still further difficulty occurs when two oils must be pournedsimultaneously so that they may mix and flow in one stream into thewater.

I have recited these conditions to accentuate the fact that my inventionhas for its object to provide a spoon adapted to simplify the operationsreferred to.

With this end in view my invention consists in the peculiar constructionhereinafter more fully set forth and illustrated in the drawing.

In order that those familiarwith the operation of blessing baptismalwater may fully appreciate my invention and its advantages I will nowproceed to describe the same referring by numerals to the accompanyingdrawing in which- Figure 1 is a top or plan view of a spoon embodyingthe features of my invention, Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section on theline a-a of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line b-bof Fig. 1.

Similar reference numerals indicate like parts in the several figures ofthe drawing.

1 is the bowl and 2, the handle of the spoon. The bowl at its upper edgeis formed with two lateral centrally disposed pouring lips 3, 3, andwith a lip 4; at the ex treme point. y y Y W Y Y The wall of the spoonconverges toward the bottom as clearly shown, and the bottom is flat inorder that the spoon may rest upon any suitable support when desired.

A longitudinal partition 5, divides the spoon into two compartments 6and 7 of equal areaJ and the walls of this partition at each end areflared slightly in an outward and downward direction and at the frontend they converge as clearly shown at 8 in Fig. l, and terminatecentrally of the lip 4, and they are slightly concave midway of theirextremities as shown at 9, 9. The concavities 9 are for the purpose ofpreventing any chance of the oil contained in the bottom of one of thecompartments from running over or around the pointed end of thepartition 5 and so getting over into the other compartment when thespoon is tipped laterally.

From the construction shown it will be seen that the two oils may bepoured into the two compartments 6 and 7 of the spoon instead ofdirectly into the water, and that when the occasion arises for pouringthe two oils simultaneously into the water it is only necessary to tiltthe spoon in the direction of the lip 4C, and that the partition 5 willnaturally direct the oils each side thereof to fiow equally to and outfrom the lip 4, thus avoiding the exercise of special care or judgment.

While my improved spoon is especially designed for use by the Catholicclergy it will be understood that it may be very desirable for otherpurposes.

Vhat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A spoon of the character described, having a bowl, the bowl beingprovided with a pouring lip at each side and a pouring lip at the pointof the spoon, and a central longitudinally extending partition dividingthe bowl into two equal compartments, said partition terminating shortof the lip at the point of the bowl and said partition being formed oneach side with a concavity whereby to permit collection of the liquid onone side of the spoon in said coneavity when the liquid on the otherside of the spoon is being poured from the corre- Sponding lateral lip.

2. In a duplex compartment spoon provided with two lateral pouring lipsand a pouring lip at the point and witha central longitudinal partitionconverging at its for- Ward end and terminating centrally of the lip atthe point, said partition at each end Y flaring outwardly toward thebottom of the 10 spoon and with a central eoncavity on each sidesubstantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof Ihereunto affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

JOHN THOMAS MEYER. Witnesses: p

FRANK SOHUMECKER, LAURENCE STEINEMANN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for :tive cents e'ach, byaddressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

